Looking for fun activities to do with your family or friends this summer without breaking the bank? Staying close to home and doing small day trips is a great way to cut back on travel expenses while still enjoying new experiences. Lucky for you, Lane County is a diverse, beautiful landscape that is teeming with outdoor activities for people of all skill and fitness levels. Lane County extends from the cascades, through Eugene/Springfield and all the way to the Oregon Coast.  Here is a brief list of fun summer activities in each of Lane County’s diverse landscapes: Cascades: Oregon Skyway...

This Thursday, District Governor John Cox will be speaking to the Eugene Airport Rotary during its weekly meeting.  November is Rotary Foundation month, and TRF is a very important cause to DG John.  To learn more about happenings in District 5110 and Rotary International, visit the District 5110 website.  We hope to see you at our Thursday morning meeting! There’s always something going on in the communities that the Eugene Airport Rotary supports, and this weekend is no exception.  With the holiday season about to begin, come relax beforehand with a fun evening out in support of seniors...

Junction City is transforming its downtown area into an old world town to celebrate Scandinavian heritage from Aug. 13 – 16, 2009.  The Junction City Scandinavian Festival offers cultural entertainment such as numerous handicrafts, colorful costumes, storytelling, folk dancing, choral and instrument groups, stage events, and much more. The Junction City Scandinavian Festival is one of two big fundraisers for Eugene Airport Rotary.  Our Rotary Club sponsors the beer garden at the festival.  The money brought in funds our local community service projects. For more information about the Junction...

After receiving close to a half  million dollars from family friends and Oregon-based Angel Investors for her start-up Web site, Caroline Cummings has learned the importance of extra help and being an entrepreneur. Cummings has plenty of experience in the realm of entrepreneurship. She is the co-founder of Smart-ups, an entrepreneurial support group in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, which is a local chapter of the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN) based in Portland, OR. Now Cummings is giving back even more by assisting with the Willamette Angel Conference, an investors conference connecting...